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Show RED CROSS AT FRONT. While the drive for the $100,000,000 wanted for the Red Cross is in progress in this country, news comes from the front that the workers of this great institution in-stitution of mercy on duty over there are going into the front line trenches, serving coffee and chocolate to the American soldiers about to leave for patrol in No Man's Land, and it is said that a cold, rainy night recently was marked rty the appearance of the de-' voted men at the post of danger who greeted the boys of the patrol with hot drinks, cigarets and dry socks. These Red Cross workers have the same contempt con-tempt for death that the soldiers possess when duty calls for the sacrifice, and the good they accomplish cannot be told in words or measured by money. They are exposed to the shot and shell and the gas attacks of the enemy, yet they do not falter when there is a chance to contribute to the comfort of the American Ameri-can boys who have been sent overseas I to fight, and, if need be, die for their country. What a hot drink, a cigaret and dry socks mean to a man who has been on patrol in No Man 's Land and , returns wet and almost physically exhausted, ex-hausted, we who remain at home will never know; but the lads who have had the experience know and show their appreciation. ap-preciation. Such incidents move us to profound admiration for the Red Cross men on the battle front, and should have the effect of loosening the strings of all American pocketbooks. |